If this was indeed due to iridescence, he wondered, might it bring the lizard some hitherto overlooked advantage?To test the idea, he and his colleague captured a handful of blue-headed adult males and illuminated them from above, mimicking the noonday sun.
Little can distract a Frenchman from his sacred noonday repast.
To an animal adapted to the forest's shade, the remorseless noonday sun of the savannah would have been a threat.
Those who wished to consult him had first to surprise and bind him during his noonday slumber.
Nantahala Gorge is the subject of many Cherokee legends; its name is derived from a term meaning "the place where only the noonday sun can shine".
When the navigators got close to the Equator, these stars fell below the horizon; there it became necessary to rely on observing the altitude of the noonday Sun and calculating latitude with the aid of an almanac.
In a fragment of a lost poem by the 7th-century-bce Greek poet Archilochus occur the words: Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians, has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and fear has come upon mankind.
Lucius illustrates his argument by means of a recent eclipse of the Sun, which, "beginning just after noonday, made many stars shine out from many parts of the sky and tempered the air in the manner of twilight".
Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians, has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and fear has come upon mankind.
Portrayed as everything from mindless killers to brooding, romantic antiheroes to teen heartthrobs who sparkle in the noonday sun, vampires are a staple of the horror genre.
The topographical part of his work shows his fondness for the wonders of nature: the signs that herald the approach of an earthquake; the tides; the icebound seas of the north; and the noonday sun, which at the summer solstice casts no shadow at Syene (Aswān), Egypt.
